Jos Ballenbak
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If I change the handle of the spade, and the head of the spade, and the shaft of the spade, do I have the same spade with which I started? I think not.What about a modern era game? That might be even harder to incorporate than a WW2 game, but if done correctly it could be amazing.
The time that each turn represents would have to be GREATLY reduced to months, weeks or even days, because if you were to make it a year per turn then realistically every combat unit would've been able to circumnavigate the Earth several times within that time.
Supply considerations would have to be included.
Air units would have to be included, perhaps helicopters and ground attack jets onscreen, and others as off screen support powers.
Naval battles would have to be completely reinvented.
Combat engine would have to be completely reinvented.
And much more.
That's when Rome does start; it lasts from before the Marian Reforms to around the turn of the millenium. The period you describe covers the first half/two-thirds of the game. I suppose they could always try to cover them in more detail, though, and it would avoid that deterministic drive towards the end-game civil wars that had a tendency to hang over a Roman faction campaign like a bad smell.If Rome starts in the late Republic, how about shifting it earlier, to Marius and Sulla and the Punic Wars, and the Mithridatic Wars towards the end.
Good idea, but it couldn't include the "Trojan War" period- that was Mycenean Greece, about a thousand years before Classical or Hellenic Greece. The former was contemporary with the Hitties, the latter with the Persians, to give it some context.Or on the Greek theme, Alexander has been done but how about the Greek city states - there were several factions, you could get the Peloponnesian War and the Trojan War thrown in too.
I just really want huge cities in battles back, as well as the ability to change the faction heir - I don't want a random ****** in a crappy city to become my king!
Good idea, but it couldn't include the "Trojan War" period- that was Mycenean Greece, about a thousand years before Classical or Hellenic Greece. The former was contemporary with the Hitties, the latter with the Persians, to give it some context.
Pellopenesian Wars would certainly be interesting, though; one of my favourite parts of Rome was the early-game phalanx-on-phalanx scuffling between Greece and Macedon, so it'd be intersting to see it on a larger scale.
Well during that period it wasn't a phalanx in the Philippian sense, the men were often only a few ranks deep, and more mobile around the battlefield. Which would make it a lot more interesting.
The Europa Barbarorum mod for Rome has them in